Loads

The weight of the components supported by the bearing, together with external forces, generally exceed the requisite minimum load. If this is not the case, the bearing must be subjected to an additional axial load.

However, the requisite minimum load can be neglected for bearings operating at relatively low speeds, depending on the outside diameter (diagram 1).

Example:
A 29444 E bearing is to operate at 90 r/min, from diagram 1 with D = 420 mm the two lines converge below the blue line. Therefore, the minimum load requirement can be ignored.